This study seeks to analyze the impact of land reform on the export performance of tobacco, since the cash crop is a major foreign currency earner for Zimbabwe. A gravity model was adopted for the study using secondary panel data from 1992 to 2018. The findings show that 17.2% of the explanatory...

Farmers face both lack of reliable markets, on one hand, and skyrocketing input prices, on the other hand, suggesting the need of Contract Farming Arrangement (CFA) in enhancing tobacco productivity and technical efficiency. Thus, in this study, the paper interrogates the effect of CFA on...

The tobacco industry is of considerable economic importance worldwide, providing the livelihoods of millions of people and contributing significantly to national economies. Within this industry, planning is emerging as a leading function of management, playing a key role in ensuring the success...

In line with the Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) and Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/786, the Independent Advisory Panel on characterising flavours in tobacco products (IAP) has been established assisting Member States and the Commission in determining whether or not a tobacco...

This study examines an economic analysis of tobacco production in the selected Kushtia district in Bangladesh. The cost-benefit technique and multiple linear regression techniques are used to analyze the financial analysis of tobacco production in Bangladesh. Primary data are collected by...

Several studies investigate the various aspects of tobacco at the processing and cigarette manufacturing levels, but the profitability, supply response, and input demand of tobacco farms in Pakistan remain unknown. Our study fills this gap by examining farm-level profitability, input demand, and...

"Indonesia is the world's second largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 percent of the market. To account for the staggering success of this lethal industry, Kretek Capitalism moves beyond a focus on the addictive hold of...

We compare the ownership characteristics of tobacco stocks with their peers in the same country and industry group. We find lower reported ownership for stocks in the tobacco industry, which suggests that anonymous investors are larger owners of these sin stocks. Compared to peer stocks, U.S....

Indonesia's cigarette industry is a significant contributor to employment and tax revenue collection. However, it is also responsible for enormous public health and economic costs, as smoking related health expenditures in Indonesia amount to approximately USD 1.2 billion per year and another...

Many investors do not want to finance morally objectionable activities with their money, such as smoking. But is investing in the shares of tobacco companies the same as financing the tobacco business? Analyzing two decades of data we find that investors in tobacco shares have not provided any...

Diversification into high-value cash crops among smallholders has been propagated as a strategy to improve welfare in rural areas. However, the extent to which cash crop production spurs projected gains remains an under-researched question, especially in the context of market imperfections...

Although cultivation of tobacco has a decisive health problem known as Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS) for long lasting contract of green-leaves, it’s a well-known cash crop in LMICs. Sometimes, farmers face economic loses, when they cultivate tobacco plant under the whole agricultural land. It...

This research exercises the conceptual theoretical approach on public policy. Implementation and evaluation towards the outcome of the policy become one of the perspectives in observing the subject of this research. Data gathering will employ several methods such as observation, interview and...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology represents a promising method to prevent dangerous global climate change, however full solar penetration demands substantial surface areas, possibly encroaching on arable land. To avoid repeating the mistakes of previous attempts to convert agricultural land to...

"In this groundbreaking volume, Juan José Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present."

"Zimbabwe's agrarian history has attracted robust scholarly attention over time. Much of it has, however, focused on encounters between white settler farmers and Africans over control of resources. Scholars have also focused on how the postcolonial state has undermined the country's agricultural...

The importance and relevance of tobacco in Malawian social and economic context cannot be overemphasized. Global tobacco industry is facing a daunting task of remaining afloat in view of vigorous anti-tobacco smoking lobby which has heightened over the past twenty years. There however seems to...

We measure the impact of a reduction in transaction costs on crop area and production decisions of smallholder tobacco growers in Malawi. For identification we exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor. Estimations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area. A 10%...

This chapter analyzes the inadequacy of state policies to assist small-scale tobacco contract farming in peripheral/communal areas in Zimbabwe. The paper is based on interviews and archival research. Random sampling research method was used in three peripheral communities in Zimbabwe with large...

De-marketing is an effort or tool to reduce or bound demand for consumption of a particular product or service on a permanent or temporary basis. De-marketing can be used as a device to decrease or reduce total demand, or types of demand and uses in relation to a particular stage of supply....

The main purpose of this scientific Opinion is to assist the Commission in identifying the additives that should be put on the priority list as foreseen by Article 6 of the Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD). The SCENIHR was asked to identify those additives, amongst the most commonly...

The Commission has established a priority list of 15 additives contained in cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco subject to enhanced reporting obligations, based on a scientific Opinion (Tobacco Additives I) of the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR). The...

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi's major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor to measure the impact of a reduction in...

This study investigates the significance of Tobacco industry particularly in the economic perspective of Pakistan economy. Tobacco is an important cash crop of Pakistan which benefits the economy by its multiple consumptions. The Tobacco industry is the only industry in the country which makes...

Tobacco farming has played an important role in this nation's history, dating back more than 200 years. Today tobacco growers face an uncertain future after years of declining tobacco leaf purchases and declining profitability — trends that have already led to a dramatic decrease in the number...